Re: [amsat-bb] FM sats with Baofeng HTs -- tone QC

Devin,

You did not say whether you can hear others on the FM satellites. If you can, here is one way to help figure out if your issue is tone. On AO-85, 91, and 92 best practice is to use a 67Hz tone, but in reality, as long as you can hear others, you don't need a tone. The tone prevents the repeater from timing out after a couple minutes, but in the meantime, it will still repeat you without a tone. So if you can NOT hear yourself, but can hear others, tone is likely not the problem (on these specific birds--I don't know about SO-50).

73,

Burns WB1FJ (who wrote the code on the satellites that picks out the tone!)